What is my mantra? There is always a new day! 🙂 Today was much better. The heaviness is gone. Though I had a scare this morning as I was taking my stinky dogs to get bathed and heard about the shooting on the UT campus. At the time there wasn’t much to tell except that there was a shooter and the campus was on lock down. A chill ran down my spine. All of the young adults I know at the campus came to mind one by one and I prayed this ‘feeling’ I’d had was not some strange premonition of doom.
I pulled into the grooming parking lot and sent a text to every young adult and called the mother of a young man that I didn’t have his information and she had no clue it was happening. That was not fun having to tell her she might want to call to make sure her son was fine. Within seconds I received responses saying they were OK. The chill left and soon the young adults began to give me more information as it was coming to them. Turns out it was a 19 year old Math major and praise be to GOD that no one was hurt…except for the gunman who committed suicide in the library.
Understanding the minds of those who snap is a mystery to us all…though I can say I think many of us have been brought to the edge but thankfully we are equipped with something inside (I like to think it is the Holy Spirit and the fact that I am rooted in Christ) that guides us back from the safety ledge of insanity.
The remainder of the day was filled to the brim but with all good things. 🙂 In one of my many trips of running around to do this or that, and to pick up one kid and then another, I looked up at the cobalt sky and realized there was not one blemish of a cloud. I stood in the parking lot of the church and looked up in awe of the vastness. To think that what I was seeing there was so clear, so perfect, so surreal …and yet probably just fifty miles away the same sky could be marked with dark rain clouds or covered in a blanket of white. I thought about the weather man’s Doppler imaging that I see every morning on television and how they fast forward it through the day’s climate changes and you can see the green bands of rain move across the land, sometimes they get bigger, or an angry red in the middle over a particular area and then fade away.
How very much this image can depict our life. We have days of clear blue sky and then some with marked fluffy white that float along without any damage or effect and other days of dark rain clouds that spill in sheets but leave us rejuvenated and with new growth…and then the occasional natural disaster that leaves behind wreckage and havoc but forces us to rebuild and leaves behind wisdom on how to deal better with the minor storms. But there is always a spattering of these clear blue days in between.
Call me quirky but that is the insight I was given today and I thought I’d share. 🙂
Blessings
Shannon